"Bücher, bei denen man vergisst, im Bus an der richtigen Haltestelle auszusteigen." NDR Christianssund, eine Woche vor Weihnachten: Während die Bewohner der beschaulichen Küstenstadt letzte Geschenke besorgen, wird der erfolgreiche Bauunternehmer Peter Münster-Smith erstochen in seiner Firma aufgefunden. An Verdächtigen besteht kein Mangel: Die Liste der Menschen, die von Münster-Smith abhängig waren, ist lang. Der Unternehmer hatte viel Geld, von dem er sich Freunde und Geliebte kaufte....
In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem of establishing lasting peace when World War I ended. It is mostly devoted to plans for the League of Nations and the discussion of post-war politics. Table of contents: Preface Chapter I. The Way to Concrete Realization Chapter II. The League Must Be Representative Chapter III. The Necessary Powers of the League Chapter IV. The Labour View of Middle Africa...
"The Millennium, and Other Poems" by Parley P. Pratt. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
Professor Van Dusen is a fictional character in a series of detective short stories and two novels by Jacques Futrelle. Some of the short stories were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American. In the stories Professor Van Dusen solves a variety of different mysteries together with his friend Hutchinson Hatch, reporter of a fictional newspaper called «The Daily New Yorker». The professor is known as the «Thinking Machine», solving problems by the remorseless...
The Watchman and Other Poems' is a collection of poems by Lucy Maud Montgomery, originally published in 1916. It consists of ninety-four poems and was the first book to be published by Montgomery's new (Canadian) company, McClelland, Goodchild, and Stewart, afterwards McClelland and Stewart. The volume is dedicated to the soldiers of the First World War who had given their lives for their country. Its title poem is about a Roman soldier who had guarded Christ's tomb and is...